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The Federal government has pledged that new legislation, introduced to parliament this week, will allow authorities to crack down on unscrupulous VET providers while improving training standards. In announcing the introduction of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Amendment ...

Australian scientists have created a 3D-printed jet engine, with the world-first breakthrough being tipped to result in advanced manufacturing opportunities. Engineers from Monash and Deakin universities and the CSIRO have printed two gas turbine engines modelled on an "auxiliary power ...

The Abbott government's controversial university reforms are expected to pass the lower house on Wednesday. After days of MPs offering their views on the revised university deregulation package, debate was adjourned on Tuesday evening after getting through the 50 or ...

Blowing your gasket can dramatically increase your chances of having a heart attack, a study has found. The risk of a heart attack is more than eight times higher in the two hours after a burst of intense anger. "A ...

University of Western Sydney vice-chancellor professor Barney Glover has been announced as the next chair of peak group Universities Australia. Glover will take over from professor Sandra Harding, who will step down from the role on May 19. Glover has a background and ...

Calls to scrap the Coalition’s higher education reforms and start afresh have been met with warnings that to do so would jeopardise Australia’s leading global position in higher education in submissions to the latest Senate inquiry into the government’s proposed ...

The banking industry has thrown its support behind the Abbott government's push to raise the education standards of financial advisers. Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has flagged the possibility of moving financial planners from a diploma-based qualification to a degree-base qualification. ...

David Hicks did not commit a crime but that doesn't change the fact that he did train with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. His lawyer Stephen Kenny says the 39-year-old has been declared innocent and it isn't due to a legal technicality. ...

Backpackers picking fruit to get visa extensions in Australia are undermining a seasonal worker program for Pacific Islanders. That's the verdict of a new World Bank and Australian National University study released on Wednesday. Australia's seasonal worker program, aimed at ...

A large number of people have been evacuated from the Australian Catholic University in Sydney, following what was first believed to be a chemical spill. The entire campus on Edward Street in North Sydney has been evacuated as a precaution after ...